Play – good idea with the upside down mounting, will try that – but also the hoep bracket – this one?
if yes – how do you attach the lamp to the bracket?

Zukemonster

Ajantom – I tired a bit of inner tube and it still swivelled.

There are no obvious way sof attaching it with zip ties either. suppose i could try and drill some holes in teh bottom for zip ties.

the problem is the lamp is quite heavy with the weight up high so it really has to be attached tightly.

Anyone else got any bright ideas?

Chris,

YHM from dnwsmith.

Cheers

Dave

tick

yawn…..

I just bougth a cree LED bike light from ebay hong kong. has a bike mount and one for your head. external battey pack which i stick in small rucksack or pocket for running offroad during the night. hasn’t arrived yet, but bought it on the strength of my mates one. was £25 posted, and should be about 800 lumens so loads to run on proper trails.

if you fancy it i can email link, but easy ebay search.

IA – that is very interesting and will have a look,

Rootes – will show him the giants as well, they too look tastey. thank you all for the suggestions, some my google skills didn’t bring up

any more?

Will shwo him the Inbred, any other suggestions out there. I have had a look at KHS which look good, but not any stock till March.

Any more ideas?

Anyone? Please!!!!!!!

Ewangronk – good effort. How did the youngest cope? I have a daughter who will be one soon and I want to go touring with her next spring. I have a triler and just wondered how she coped? was it pretty much she slept and when she woke up you took her out adn played with ehr a bit then she was happy sitting watching the world go by? what did she sleep in?

Sorry for all the questions, would just love to do something like what you did and haven’t really heard of people touring with a one year old before.

Cheers

Dave

thanks ski <passes biscuits>

just one sugar thanks

Grum, i was thinking of the lack of DoF but then I suppose if i really want it i can always add it after in PS.

i would be tempted to get one as my preset POS is driving me up the wall with how slow it is, the only thing holding me back is i am waiting for low light review, if it can only shoot up to iso200 then becomes too noisy then i wont bother. but i am hoping there will be some clever electronic thingmajig that helps with low light performance.

any decent reviews out there yet?

davidsrussel, I was on a Yellow tracer 2 and a green top, did we chat then?

I also over did the carbo loading till 3am on friday night, and struggled my way around it with a banging head ache and dehydration. The cramp kick in just before the river crossing and moral dropped as I was not looking forward to cramping for the rest of it. To the guy who gave me some electrolytes by the river- you are my hero,if you are on here, let yourself be know as i would like to send you some beer!!! I think they made the difference between finishing and mountain rescue! I had to limp home and could not put any effort in otherwise I would cramp, but at least I managed to get home with some gentle spinning

great route though and the first descent was carnage, people falling off left right and centre as i went down it.

Will def come back adn do it again next eyar without the pre race piss up! and maybe a lighter bike!

A great event with great organisation, thanks to the marhsalls and all the that gave up their time to help put this event on.

I will take my thick shorts and a bin liner just incase it gets ‘nippy’ i can wear it as a water proof.

linn of dee to hutchinson hut – about 2 hours

Messiah – thank you, your info has been good and helpful.

i think the choice sits now for :

1. hutchinson , sleep there and leave stuff and recollect ont eh way back down
2. the route you did as a circular leavign early in the morning.

my hairy arse credentials are good – I have some minerals.

I am the person riding with rugbydick, what is the climb / carry like up the Srion Riach to the top? is it all a carry?

Not worried if it is, just need to set my expectations right. I prefer the sound of this as it is a circular route, not fond of out and backs.

But then again. I do fancy a night out so the hutchinson idea of going there, leave stuff there and go up and back out collecting stuff on the way out is very appealing.

to many decisions!!!

do you have a big window in a room that faces east? if so then i would just use natural light early in the morning. bit of a photo geak myself and any time i used flash when my daughter was young then she woudl get shocked adn cry a bit or wake her up.

the thinkg that makes the most difference are the props, all teh cool baby pics i have seen are the babies on really cosy looking blankets or funny little cute hats etc…

other tips i learnt, super heat the room so that it is nearly unbearable, it sends them to sleep easily and makes them easy to move about, fill them up with milk as well just before. if you want them ‘au naturel’ have a few blankets around to catch any accidents and alos take the nappy off a bit before so there are no pressur eline sin the skin.

it took me three different attempts before i go pictures that i liked.

and congrats on being a dad.

anotherdeadhero – i had SKS on it and have 4 lovely patches of no paint on my seatstays now – oh well. looks liek it was not jsut me then, i ended up zip tieing them on hard to stop them from scratchign more away, but mine were not as long as yours, will have anotehr hunt around.

cheers

dave

Anotherdeadhero –

I pretty much have an identical bike for commuting. what mudguards do you use? I am having dificulties with getting some decent ones for mine.

cheers

Dave

think I will be doing ti this year for the first time. On a tracer 2.

praying for good weather!

but surely you want to wait for the carbon version just announced at the eurobike?

I see dangerous times ahead…….

thanks all – will go see what i can get.

cheers

Dave

that would make sense as it is an old steel planet x frame with mudguard and pannier rack mounts. that is a pain – i was suppose to build it and take it to france on saturday. could be some sprinting aroudn the LBS tonight I feel!

thank you all

Dave

awesome – thank you

totally agree with funkyduc – we told our close friends as soon as we knew, it was them that we woudl need if somethign was to go wrong. I completely don’t understand keeping it a secret for 3 months. It is far to exciting a enws to keep it to your self, i wanted to tell everyone who would listen!

congratultions to you both.

I have jsut bought a pendle one, although they don’t look as flash as the thule ones, mine is so much more solid than my mates Thule, i bought it to carry DH bikes on the back of the car. I tried a thule and found the wheelbase was too short on these racks to get Dh bikes in. Also was not a fan of having to ratchet the rack as tight as possibel to the towbar to stop it rotating.

would recommend Pendle.

Excuse my ignorance, but how can a bike have an optimum chain ring size? Is bob not a matter of the suspension design and shock dampening? How can a chain ring size influence this?

so how did it go fraser?

I decided not to go out, was going to go to Beinn A’Bhuird and sleep on top but think I will keep it for the first clear night we have from now.

fraser – which one you planning on? I was planning one but think it might get postponed till better weather, no point sleeping on top of a munro when you can’t see anything but grey and it is raining!

where are you then mactheknife? i am just outside aberdeen.

mactheknife – that is where I was on wednesday night when I saw it. agree with your thoughts on the descents, they are awesome!

Lazy bike – great stuff , all the info i need is there!

cheers

Dave

What has happenend to Simonfbarnes? I have not seen him on here for a while? Did a miss a flounce?

La grave hasn’t got the best biking, it is a bit too steep and there is not much scope there, probably 2 days worth. Just down the valley you have Les Deux alpes and Alp d’huez about an hour away, and in the other direction you have got mont genevre and les Orres again about an hour away and are all good.

if you want to stay in la grave there are two decent campsites, but it is quite a sleepy little town and if you go down to Briancon there are a lot more campsites and activities on offer.

Are you after DH riding or more xc riding?

love the TDF road gap picture. I am still trying to find it in a poster size print so I can frame it and hang it up on the wall.